Comparing Form and Content of Jabberwocky, The Raven, and Lady of Shalo

Comparing Form and Content of Jabberwocky, The Raven, and dame of Shalott In many poems, the design of imagery and sound causes the reader to consider them to be good or bad. Repetition, alliteration, the use of metaphors and images together with rhymes and the text itself work together to bring to pass that special feeling or message the poet wants to sh are. The Romantics believed that poetry should express the poets feelings or state of mind and should not be worked with or thought through too much, since the original feeling thus would be lost, but in order to share your feelings or ideas to the public, I believe it is important to subject them in as good a form as executable. If the motive wants to create something worth reading, I believe he or she has to tenseness on both form and content of a poem - they are inseparable. Lewis Carrolls Jabberwocky is probably one of the close to famous poems which really have no content, but still the form (sound and rhymes) are right Twas brillig, and the slithy toves / Did gyre and gimle in the wabe / All mimsy were the borogoves, / And the mome raths outgrabe (Fromkin & Rodman, p185). Why anyone would bother to write such a put up is a mystery to me, but perhaps it was to show us that evening though the poem looks alright at first glance, it is not possible to make good poetry out of nonsense. In The Lady of Shalott, the figure of speech of the lady is repeated at the end of the stanzas, creating a kind of comfort and calming nursery rhyme like effect. The imagery used in the poem is vivid and shows us the world outside the ladys tower On either side the river lie / Long fields of barley and of rye / --- / To many-towered Camelot / And up and down the people go (Tenn... ...portant, I believe that the most important in a poem must be its content - the message or feeling of what the poet wants to share - and not how. An example of the resistance can be seen in Carrolls Jabberwocky, and that canno t be labelled as wide poetry, can it? Works Cited Fromkin, Victoria & Rodman, Robert. An Introduction to Language, 6th edition. Orlando, Florida Harcourt Brace, 1998 Poe, Edgar Allan. The Raven. The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Shorter Fifth Edition. Ed. Nina Baym. New York, N.Y. Norton & Company, 1999. 701-704 Poe, Edgar Allan. The Philosophy of Composition, 1850. http//www.poedecoder.com/Qrisse/works/philosophy.html (online) Lord Tennyson, Alfred. The Lady of Shalott. The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Sixth Edition, The Major Authors. New York, N.Y. Norton & Company, 1996. 1883-1887